Hi Tucker!

The best places to look would be the Baltimore City Archives in downtown
Baltimore, the Maryland Historical Society also in Baltimore, and the
Maryland Hall of Records in Annapolis.  Unfortunately, I no longer live in
Maryland and I don't have the numbers but you should be able to find them
on-line.  I think you can write them and ask them to research something for
you, but I would call first to check.  I can't tell you which of the three
would be your best bet ---- they all have great stuff!  The Enoch Pratt Free
Library in downtown Baltimore is a great source for old newspapers, rare
books, Maryland history, and many other things.

Good luck!

Kathy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tucker Ranson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 2:01 PM
Subject: Need more information about ship arrival in Baltimore


> I subscribe to the VA ROOTS LlST and need help with a genealogical problem
> having to do with Baltimore and hope that you might be able to help or
> suggest something. I have been impressed in the past with how helpful list
> members have been with comments on problems posted on this list.
>
> My wife got me interested in genealogy when she started researching her
> ancestors. Her surname is KERCADO (variations: Carcado, Kercadio, de
> Kercado, de Carcado, Seneschal de Kercado, Seneschal de Carcado). She is
> from Puerto Rico, but Spanish names beginning with the letter K are
> non-existent. She traced her ancestry back to minor nobility from
Brittany,
> France, who had come over and settled in various parts of the Caribbean
> before settling in Puerto Rico.
>
> We found in the National Archives records of Kercados arriving in
Baltimore
> 7/1/1839, but no ship is named on the index cards (microfilm of index
> cards, actually), and Nationality and Origin are listed only as "West
> Indies." As you can imagine, we are very interested in any additional
> information which might be available, such as:
>
> Name and ownership of ship
> Specific place of origin
> Did they bring any cargo (they are noted to be "merchants")?
> No women are listed, yet several children as young as one year are listed
> with the group, and this strikes us as odd. Were there really no women, or
> at that time did they simply not list women?
>
> The index cards show:
>
> G. Kercado, 46 years old,
> G. Kercado, 26 years old --- merchant
> Charles Kercado, 12 years old --- merchant [in spite of his youth]
> Guagin Kercado, 11 years old [first name is not a usual spelling in either
> French or Spanish --- Joaquin or Joachim?]
> G. Kercado 8 years old
> Manuel Kercado, 2 years old
> Alfred Kercado, 1 year old
>
> at the bottom of each card is written, below the printed format of the
card
> in the lower margin: "P. 20   Balt. 43"
>
> Might this give a clue to where to find any more information.
>
> What we are hoping for from you, if you are able, is:
>
> Any thoughts you might have about how to develop this further?
>
> Do you know where in Baltimore or elsewhere we might go to find more
> information?
>
> Any comments at all which you think might be useful?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tucker Ranson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Virginia Kercado <[log in to unmask]>
>
> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions
at
> http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html
>

To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at
http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html